Sydney Blue wrote:
Bluebernz - I will agree with you that the previous administration left Pagan with a terrible list . They kept topping up the list in hope of maybe snatching a flag. With the exception of Kouta and whitnal I cant think of one player who started young and developed through the club. But none of us complained when we were playing finals every year. Pagan came to the club in 2003 with the knowledge that 8 players were returning off injury and the possibility of earlier draft picks but the players revolted they didn't like him and the draft picks were taken away. So he decided to clean them out (Fair enough). But knowing he had a rebuilding job in front of him why did he then go out and draft recycled hacks . It is worse than what the previous administration had done in trying to top up. I would have rathered that he took a chance on a young bloke than pick up some of the rubbish we have at the moment. Even this year Pagan thought we were better than what we are and instead of using his picks for youth he got Chambers and Longmuir and even Bryan. Once again trying to top up the list. He has got it wrong on several occassions and he will get it wrong again.
Sydney, I won't go into the reasons why Denis drafted re-treads. They've been covered by old55 and dannyboy.
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Did you notice the change in our game on the weekend - they flooded back and slowed the game down. This should have been done at the 10 minute mark of the Richmond game. But I am wondering was the change in the gameplan Pagans idea or was it a result of the players meeting during the week.
I don't think the players have that much power and authority that they can make the decision to completely change the game plan and flood against Denis' wishes. I would assume that the meeting was held to lift morale and perhaps make a commitment to work harder for each other. Without seeing the stats, it appeared from watching the game that our tackling and 1 percenters improved compared to the previous 3 matches.
The decision to flood would've come from Denis. Having been flogged in our last 3 matches, DP adopted the flood to minimise any further damage and perhaps try to restore some shattered confidences given the results over the past month.
You ask why didn't he do this against Richmond? Because flooding is a Band-Aid solution only. You're just papering over the cracks. No team has
ever won the premiership flooding. Pagan wants the players to learn a game plan that he knows has proven the test of time during September. For this reason, the flooding tactic will not be a permanent fixture in our game plan for the rest of 2005. DP will only resort to it under extenuating circumstances - such as when you've come off thrashings 3 weeks in a row.
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Just as Wayne Carey said about Lance last week that the game is slowly passing him by , I think sadly the same thing is happening to Denis.
Well we'll have to disagree on this point. As far as I'm concerned, give Denis a decent side first before you make the call that the game has passed him by. Our current list has more holes than you can poke a stick at. You can't polish a turd as they say. I bet any of the current AFL coaches would struggle with this list as well.
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